Freshman Kelsey Bavencoff wins Playwrights Project competition

GROSSMONT COLLEGE (Press Release)– Kelsey Bavencoff, 18, a freshman, recently learned that from 294 entries, her script “Next Train to Nowhere,” was selected by the Playwrights Project to be dramatized April 1-10 at the Lyceum Theatre downtown. The play will be directed by Carrie Klewin.

Bavencoff had been a student at West Hills High School in Santee, taking a creative writing course when her teacher Laura Preble encouraged her to enter the contest. The Playwrights Project had previously performed at the school an award-winning play from another season.

In selecting Bavencoff’s entry, judges for the Playwrights Project described “Next Train To Nowhere” as a “poignant look at life and death, when two strangers meet on a train and change the course of each other’s life.”

Tickets for the production at the Lyceum Theatre, which is at the foot of the Horton Plaza Shopping Center, are $20 general admission, $15 seniors, students and military, and $9 for school groups with 10 or more. Further information may be obtained by phoning the Playwrights Project at (619) 239-8222.